Just like in the 2002 animated movie, Stitch was an "experiment" scientifically engineered to create chaos and destruction. And that "star" Lilo saw in the sky? It was actually a police cruiser Stitch stole to escape the spaceship where his captors now frantically search for him.

The box office is horribly sluggish but there is a silver lining in summer, evident in Disney’s live-action take of 2002 animation toon Lilo Stitch which opens on May 23. How’s that? The 24-hour traffic for the trailer that dropped this week clocked 158M views,

Now, I understand that some folks are fatigued with Disney's live actions, but as a Samoan woman, I was SO looking forward to this one. I grew up in the days before Moana, so the original Lilo & Stitch was my only mainstream representation.